Sentence examples for calls useful from inspiring English sources

You sense, powerfully, the couple's pleasure in things, in what Tuomey calls "useful beauty".

Filecoin, however, created a proof system that it calls useful rather than wasteful.

Nonetheless, the suggestion calls useful attention to the possible adaptive functions of rumination in certain situations, and it offers a possible, and testable, explanation for why depression arises so often in difficult life situations.

This paper describes the application of a new paradigm, called useful daylight illuminance (UDI), to assess daylight in buildings.

In the West, those whom Lenin reportedly called "useful idiots" were enlisted to embrace the coup's choice as a much-needed strongman to do business with.

There is a whole blogging ecosystem devoted to whispers, rumours and theories about every aspect of Apple's activities, an ecosystem that provides an army of what Lenin would have called "useful idiots" for the company.

Now he faces a more consequential challenge in changing, amid public pressure at home and abroad, a series of intelligence practices that he has called useful in preventing another terrorist attack in the United States.

China has said it will not become directly involved in the current military campaign, although in a sign of the cooperative mood a team of Chinese security specialists just visited Washington for rare exchanges that American officials called useful.

Mr. Wascom said that his group, in affiliation with the Aerospace Medical Association, publishes a booklet for passengers called "Useful Tips for Air Travelers," which he said "covers a variety of cabin-environment issues, including recommended practices to prevent leg compression and blood pooling" on long flights.

The paradox produced by the N.S.A. disclosures — the administration beginning a criminal investigation of the man who prompted the discussion Mr. Obama called useful — is only the latest of his presidency, as he has struggled to manage a sprawling security bureaucracy that encompasses drone strikes, cyberattacks, sweeping surveillance and a ballooning amount of classified information.

That's from "Lives of the Poets," a work-for-hire project that became Johnson's final masterpiece, one which he hoped would give its readers what he called "useful pleasure". If you put the emphasis on "pleasure" that could be the two-word takeaway for Leo Damrosch's "The Club". It's a magnificently entertaining book.